Alternatives to the journal impact factor: I3 and the top-10% (or top-25%?) of the most-highly cited papers.

Autor/in	Leydesdorff, Loet
Titel	Alternatives to the journal impact factor: I3 and the top-10% (or top-25%?) of the most-highly cited papers.
Quelle	In: Scientometrics, (2012) 2, S.355-365 PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0138-9130
DOI	10.1007/s11192-012-0660-6
Schlagwörter	Nonparametric; Source normalization; Citation; Journal; Impact
Abstract	Abstract Journal impact factors (IFs) can be considered historically as the first attempt to normalize citation distributions by using averages over 2 years. However, it has been recognized that citation distributions vary among fields of science and that one needs to normalize for this. Furthermore, the mean—or any central-tendency statistics—is not a good representation of the citation distribution because these distributions are skewed. Important steps have been taken to solve these two problems during the last few years. First, one can normalize at the article level using the citing audience as the reference set. Second, one can use non-parametric statistics for testing the significance of differences among ratings. A proportion of most-highly cited papers (the top-10% or top-quartile) on the basis of fractional counting of the citations may provide an alternative to the current IF. This indicator is intuitively simple, allows for statistical testing, and accords with the state of the art.
Erfasst von	OLC
Update	2023/2/05